Police are trying to figure out how a stolen AK-47 assault rifle wound up in the hands of Gaby Eduoard, a 21-year-old Palm Beach man.

A man called 911 on Thursday night complaining that somebody was waving a large rifle around in a West Palm Beach park, Palm Beach police said. The caller followed the suspect in his vehicle across a bridge into Palm Beach, where police met up with him.

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"The allegation is that he had pointed a rifle," said Palm Beach police spokesman Fred Hess, adding that an AK-47 is usually a "semi-automatic assault rifle, normally used by the military in warfare."

When police showed up at Eduoard's home, they didn't find him, but they did recovered a magazine with bullets inside of a closet, and then found the AK-47 resting in a shed out back.

Police traced the gun's serial number and determined the AK-47 was reported stolen back in 2005. It subsequently may have been sold to a local branch of the MS-13 gang, though it's unclear how it finally ended up on Palm Beach, investigators said.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is investigating the stolen gun, while the West Palm Beach police are looking into the incident at the park.

So far, no charges have been filed.

"It's absolutely strange," Hess said. "It's not unusual for us to come up with a stolen car or a stolen license plate here or there, but in my recollection I'm not aware of any instances of any assault rifles. It's very unusual."